Fear Quote by Ian McEwan

“[She] looked as if her nerves were quivering with the expectation that something would be thrown at her. But she never had anything worse…

— George Eliot

“An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was…

— Kate Chopin

“She had lost her compassion for people and a thick crust of indifference had formed around her feelings - that disgust that afflicts the…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs,…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“The shock, the pain, the agonizing self-pity over the fact that he would never see her again, never hold her, never smell her, the…

— Vince Flynn

“This realization frightened her and made her unable to sleep at night, which, in turn, frightened her more. She feared the restlessness that was…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“...her melancholy mood had followed her home. It clung to her like perfume, filling the rooms she visited with the scent of loss. Surely…

— Elise K. Ackers

“She promised new, tantalizing diversions. She whispered words of raw, intense pleasure the likes of which he’d never experienced. He was intrigued. She had…

— Sylvain Reynard

“He found her pretty in a bewildered, washed-out way, but it was her restlessness that aroused him, the quiet exasperation of a woman who…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.”

— Louise Erdrich

“It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single…

— Ayn Rand

“How else could she explain the things she’d thought of late, the way she had acted? All this guilt, this doubt, it was corrosive.…

— Anonymous